TAC provides policy and advocacy leadership on affordable and permanent supportive housing and health and human services issues affecting very low-income people with disabilities and people who are homeless.

Several important changes to the HIC and PIT requirements
beginning in 2015 include:

2015 HIC:

CoCs will be required to enter the address for all projects,
except for Victim Service Provider projects. If a project uses a
scattered site model the CoC will indicate that to HUD and not have
to enter an address for the project.

CoCs with overflow beds should report the total number of
overflow beds that were available for occupancy on the night of the
inventory count. If there is no fixed number of overflow beds, CoCs
may instead report the number of overflow beds that were occupied
on the night of the inventory count.

2015 PIT:

HUD provides additional guidance about counting standards and
methodologies in the Point-in-Time Count Methodology Guide.
Compliance with HUD standards might result in a more accurate and,
potentially, lower PIT count than in the past. CoCs will be able to
explain changes in PIT counts that are due to methodology
improvements in the CoC Program Competition application and HUD
will take such changes into account in the application review and
scoring process.

CoCs will be required to report the total number of youth
households (persons under age 25), including the race, ethnicity,
and gender data for parenting youth and unaccompanied youth
counted. Data on Youth Households is a subset of the All Households
data. Youth included in the Youth Households table, and related
demographic data, should still be included in the All Households
data.

CoCs will not be required to submit data on one-child and
multi-child households in the Households with Only Children table
because they now report the relevant information about youth in the
Youth Household table.

CoCs will be required to report the number of sheltered and
unsheltered chronically homeless veterans and chronically homeless
veteran families.

HUD has expanded the transgender categories to male to female
transgender and female to male transgender to match the 2014 HMIS Data Standards. CoCs will be
required to collect and report on the number of persons that report
as transgender male to female and transgender female to male.

Persons counted under "multiple races" should also be counted
in at least two other race categories.